Spot crypto is legal and the service side is licensed: since MiCAR applies, crypto-asset service providers need an authorisation, and BaFin runs that procedure together with the Deutsche Bundesbank, with the national Kryptomärkteaufsichtsgesetz (KMAG) and the 2025 delegated and implementing regulations filling in the detail. Holding, buying and selling crypto as a retail investor is unrestricted.
Leveraged derivatives are treated as a consumer-protection problem instead. Under a product intervention BaFin ordered a general prohibition on marketing, distributing and selling contracts for difference to retail clients, lifted only where the provider meets all five protective conditions at once.
The contract itself does not change by geography: a AMD perpetual settles in USDC everywhere.
12 venues open AMD perps to traders in Germany.
ApeX
Aster
Avantis
gTrade
Helix
Hyperliquid
Lighter
Ondo
Ostium
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Section 23 EStG taxes private sale transactions in "other assets" where less than one year passes between acquisition and disposal, at the taxpayer's personal income tax rate; a calendar year whose total private-sale gains stay under EUR 1,000 is exempt.
Trading AMD from Germany: legal.
From Germany, you can fund an AMD position using SEPA Bank Transfer, Sofortueberweisung and Credit/Debit Card.
15 platforms serve Germany for AMD trading, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.
Canborsa offers up to 10x leverage on AMD for traders based in Germany.
On Canborsa, AMD trading from Germany costs 0.07% per side.